Why is it just today that I found out this awesome and terrifying cover exists? No, it's not at all like that other cover of this song you may be familiar with. That other cover is also terrifying but it isn't awesome. #80s #80smusic www.youtube.com/watch?v=05MF...

Every ten years, Warner Bros. merges with a company like Uncle Steve's Discount Vacuum Cleaners for a trillion dollars, and the immediate result is that they lose a trillion dollars and stop doing anything they were doing that was popular

Ebay held its IPO 27 years ago today, making its founder and president instant billionaires. It was the rare dotcom survivor, partly because it was one of the few that remembered a business needs to make money. #retrocomputing dfarq.homeip.net/ebays-ipo-th...

22 years ago today, AMD released the first x86-64 CPU, the Athlon 64. In the process, they forced Intel to make a CPU it never wanted to make. #retrocomputing dfarq.homeip.net/athlon-64-ho...

It was 39 years ago today that the NEC V20 CPU was ruled legal. The V20 is a popular upgrade among retro enthusiasts for XT-class PCs, giving a slight speed boost and allowing some 286 titles to run. I use one in my Tandy 1000. #retrocomputing dfarq.homeip.net/nec-v20-cpu-...

🧵My wife asked if our conservative relatives are really so naive they don't realize we're mad at them, or understand why we're mad. Some of them may be that naive, and some don't care. Remember, conservatism is rooted in greed. And for those who may care a little, conservatism holds a promise. 1/4

I often wondered what Steve Jobs learned during his exile from Apple that made him so much more effective in the late 1990s than he had been in the 1980s. It turns out it was just one adjustment in the way he talked. You can make the same adjustment. #retrocomputing dfarq.homeip.net/what-steve-j...

32 years ago, Commodore released its very last game console. Or its very last Amiga, depending on how you want to look at it. Maybe it was a good idea or a bad one but the Amiga CD32 was too little, too late. #retrocomputing #retrogaming dfarq.homeip.net/amiga-cd32-c...

Andreessen will run it into the ground (it's what he does) but in the meantime you want to have absolutely nothing to do with Tiktok.

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

The 6502 CPU first went on sale 50 years ago today. Here's the story of how young Steve Wozniak ended up buying his out of a jar in a hotel room, which he used in the first Apple I computer. #retrocomputing dfarq.homeip.net/the-6502-cpu...

39 years ago today, Apple released the last Apple II, with design decisions that kept it from being everything it could have been. And fans and critics have been arguing about it ever since. #retrocomputing dfarq.homeip.net/apple-iigs-r...

I'm just going to leave this out there: When I was in journalism school, we had to write for a newspaper owned by the university. For any correction we had to print, our letter grade dropped a full grade. So we were very sure of everything we printed, because otherwise, we wouldn't pass.

When working on a blog post, I was trying to find out when Micron Technology reached the Fortune 500. The AI summary at the top gave me three different answers on three different searches: that information is unavailable, after 1995, and 1994. I found through a reliable source it was 1994.

Somehow this DIY Cybertruck knockoff looks less ridiculous than the real thing.

The water company is replacing a broken line in the front yard. Our dog seems very confused about the huge hole in the front yard and that enormous hollowed-out stick they look like they're about to bury.

Eighteen years ago today, on September 12, 2007, the FBI raided the home of a 35-year-old MP3 pirate in North Carolina and seized his computer equipment. We've all seen those FBI warnings not to copy movies and music. Sometimes they mean it. #retrocomputing #piracy dfarq.homeip.net/the-fbis-rai...

The Atari 2600 launched 48 years ago today. In this blog post, we look at its launch title lineup, how it compared to its peers and to subsequent consoles, and why Atari didn't have a big name pack-in title in 1977. #retrogaming #atari dfarq.homeip.net/atari-2600-l...

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains. Alright, interjecting some editorialism here. This is a fantastic album from the former Guadalcanal Diary frontman and only a few thousand people ever heard it.

Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans. As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA. See this:

🚨 UPDATE on the current COVID vaccine access situation in the US. Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ali Solomon. #NewYorkerCartoons

In Missouri, I was able to get the vaccine Brainworm Kennedy doesn't want you to have by telling Walgreens I'm physically inactive.

Today, we celebrate the 35th anniversary of The Secret of #MonkeyIsland. The gold master floppy disks were created on September 2, 1990, and the game reached stores later that September or in October. Source: grumpygamer.com/monkey25/

What did the Amiga design team do after they figured out Commodore was going nowhere good? Part of it designed a handheld game console that, ironically, ended up under Atari ownership. Its best game ended up being ported to Windows 3.1, of all things. #retrogaming dfarq.homeip.net/atari-lynx-t...

Something press pool could ask about

hey hey rfk how many kids did you kill today

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:

Commodore 64, purchased new in December 1994. One of our main sources of software was magazine type-ins. I learned a fair bit about programming by typing in programs from magazines and finding my mistakes. Contrary to rumor, most magazine type-ins did work, but you did have to type them correctly.

Imma just leave this here. It can run on a Raspberry Pi, an old laptop, a number of different things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjXp...

From 1982. I wonder if Captain Sensible would write it differently now? www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0df...

I'm seeing lots of posts today about increased surveillance and that reminds me that if you don't have one of these, you really ought to think about getting one of these. That way you can watch TV and listen to music without big brother watching too. jellyfin.org

10 print chr$(14):rem switch to upper/lowercase 20 print "I am an AI chatbot. I can run on a Commodore VIC-20. No GPU needed. Ask me anything!" 30 input "Is there anything I can help you with?";a$ 40 rem watch this! 50 print "I live on the Internet. I can't help you." 60 print 70 goto 30

Had to call AAA roadside assistance today. They sent me a link to an AI chatbot who told me where the tow truck was. The chatbot told me the towtruck arrived. I said no, it's not here, you sent it to the wrong address. It said it's an AI and it lives in the Internet and couldn't help me. #aisucks

44 years ago today, IBM introduced the original IBM PC. It was super successful, but how many of them sold? I've heard conflicting information about that so I found out what the real number was and why sometimes you hear different numbers. #retrocomputing dfarq.homeip.net/how-many-ibm...

29 years ago this week, MP3 piracy was born. The first pirated MP3, if you're keeping score, was Until it Sleeps by Metallica. #retrocomputing dfarq.homeip.net/the-first-pi...

No, Roku, I don't want to watch "Dr" Phil's Without Merit TV. And neither does anyone else.

48 years ago this week, Radio Shack introduced its TRS-80 computer. Tandy hoped to sell 5,000 units but 250,000 people signed up for the waiting list, shattering expectations. An ecosystem quickly sprung up around it. #retrocomputing dfarq.homeip.net/radio-shacks...

I just went and bought a digital album and one of the formats I can download it in is AIFF. So if I ever want to listen to it on an Amiga, I'm covered! (I went for FLAC.)

30 years ago today, the eBay domain name was registered. But that does NOT mean the famous auction site launched that day. What we have here is a case of a side project becoming the main project. #retrocomputing #dotcomera dfarq.homeip.net/ebays-1995-d...

I was reading by age 3, all because of Sesame Street. I wasn't a fluke. My two sons were both reading by age 3 too, because of that show. Conservatives shut PBS down because they hate the idea of 3-year-old Black kids learning to read from it.

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The Ethicist | We've worked out an arrangement with our gardnerer where we don't pay him and in return, we don't report him to ICE. Our adult daughter, who in full disclosure has been woke since her first term at Loomis Chaffee, says this is "textbook extortion." Can I cut her weekly allowance?

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

Trump protest this Saturday at S Lindbergh & Baptist Church Rd. #stl #regimechange

It was 29 years ago today that Microsoft released Windows NT 4.0 to manufacturing. Do you still have an NT4 box lurking in your corporate network somewhere? #retrocomputing dfarq.homeip.net/windows-nt-4...

How is it that I first heard this gem of a song from 1993 today? 105.7 FM failed me. Someone on Reddit casually mentioned that Aimee Mann sang backup on this and I'm like waitaminute, Murray Attaway recorded solo stuff? www.youtube.com/watch?v=51f5...

Clive Sinclair had more influence on the UK computer market than he did in North America. But even as a USer, I'll argue Sinclair did more than anyone else to make computers affordable. #retrocomputing dfarq.homeip.net/clive-sincla...

This didn't make me any friends growing up in and around St. Louis in the 1980s, but Ryne Sandberg was my favorite baseball player. He did everything his team ever asked him to do, even when they jerked him around early in his career. Rest in peace, Ryno.